Salar de Atacama

Antofagasta Region · Chile

Salar de Atacama, Chile
Photo: Francesco Mocellin, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
March to November
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Chile's largest salt flat, a vast crust of white and grey stretching across the Atacama basin. Its brine lagoons host flamingo colonies and hold some of the world's richest lithium reserves.

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